Is duboismode.fr safe?
http://duboismode.fr/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
French-styled clothing boutique that ships from China and sends returns there at the buyer's expense, according to multiple independent buyer complaints
duboismode.fr is a Shopify clothing store written entirely in French and branded as effortless French style, but its own terms, refund, shipping and contact pages give a store address in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and a Dutch mobile number, with no French company registration. Independent review and complaint platforms carry repeated buyer accounts for this exact domain: goods that do not match the photos, parcels shipped from China, returns directed to a Chinese address at the customer's own cost, and refunds refused or cut to partial offers. The site itself is technically clean — valid encryption, no browser threat warning, no popups or downloads — so the risk here is commercial rather than malicious code.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Nov 1, 2026At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
2 years old
Registered Jun 13, 2024Expires Jun 13, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 7, 2027 (56d)Hosting
Canada (CA)
Shopify, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
1/60
1 antivirus engine flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 12, 2026
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 6 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate4 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Importante arnaque ! Le nom Dubois et une adresse mail.fr rassure, mais c'est une incroyable arnaque"
- Moderate4 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Boutique Dubois Mode soit disant basé aux Pays Bas mais produit expédiés de Chine."
- ModerateThe store markets itself as French but its own contact and policy pages give a Dutch address in Amersfoort and a +31 phone number, with no French company registration disclosed.
- ModerateThe terms require disputes to go before French courts while the operator address on the same page is in the Netherlands.
- Moderate4 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Des problèmes ont été signalés Ce domaine a été signalé non sécurisé."
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsValid TLS encryption, no Safe Browsing threat warning, and no abuse reports on the hosting IP.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 881 days old, about 2 years 4 months
- SupportsThe store publishes an email on its own domain and a phone number, and offers full terms, refund, shipping and contact pages.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
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Act quickly: the first hours matter most for a chargeback.
- Call your bank or card issuer now
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- Change any password you entered
If you entered a password on duboismode.fr, change it there and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and messages as evidence.
- Report the site
Reports help get scam sites taken down faster and warn other people.
- Report the domain to its registrar
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Openprovider registered this domain. ICANN's lookup shows the registrar's abuse contact.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
"Recovery" services or agents who contact you, or ask for a fee up front, are almost always a second scam aimed at victims. Your bank's dispute process and the official reporting services never charge a fee in advance.
Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
duboismode.fr is a Shopify clothing store written entirely in French and branded as effortless French style, but its own terms, refund, shipping and contact pages give a store address in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and a Dutch mobile number, with no French company registration. Independent review and complaint platforms carry repeated buyer accounts for this exact domain: goods that do not match the photos, parcels shipped from China, returns directed to a Chinese address at the customer's own cost, and refunds refused or cut to partial offers. The site itself is technically clean — valid encryption, no browser threat warning, no popups or downloads — so the risk here is commercial rather than malicious code.
A French storefront run from a Dutch address
The homepage sells a French identity: the hero banner reads 'LE STYLE FRANÇAIS SANS EFFORT' and the navigation, product copy and policies are all in French. The store's own contact block, repeated across its policy pages, names 'Dubois Mode' at Utrechtseweg 341, Amersfoort, Utrecht 3818 EL, Pays-Bas, with info@duboismode.fr and a +31 phone number. No French company name, SIRET or RCS number appears alongside it.
The terms page adds that any dispute must be brought before the French courts, which sits awkwardly next to the Dutch operator address printed on the same page. The domain itself is about 2 years 4 months old and hosted on Shopify infrastructure, so the storefront is established enough to look ordinary at a glance.
What buyers report about this domain
Reviews and complaints published for duboismode.fr describe the same pattern from several angles: a shopper who says the French name and .fr email reassure buyers but that the shop is a scam; a shopper who says that when you want to return an item you are given an address in China and must pay the postage yourself; and a shopper who says everything on the site suggests you are buying in France while the parcel ships from China.
A separate complaint board carries the same account — a shop supposedly based in the Netherlands whose products are shipped from China, and a return accepted only on condition that the customer pays shipping to China. The review platform's aggregate rating for the domain is 'Poor' at 2.1 out of 5, and a trust-profile listing records that problems have been reported and the domain flagged as unsafe.
Clean connection, but a checkout that leads into a disputed return path
The technical side is unremarkable: the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. One saved antivirus observation marked the URL as suspicious, but it is a stale single-engine result rather than a fresh scan, so it is not the basis for this rating.
The commercial path is where the risk sits. The cart drawer offers 'Procéder au paiement' with free shipping and checkout stays on duboismode.fr, so there is no cross-domain payment redirect or affiliate funnel. A newsletter form collects email addresses and the page loads advertising and analytics tags. Nothing on the site warns that goods may ship from China or that a return may mean paying postage to a Chinese address — that only surfaces in the buyer reports.
Why the score is 38
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 1, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
- Suspicious1
- Clean59
- Undetected33
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- Googleshopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows the wordmark 'Dubois Mode' with French-language navigation (ACCUEIL, FEMMES, HOMMES, CONTACTEZ-NOUS, À PROPOS DE NOUS, SUIVRE VOTRE COMMANDE, FAQ) and a black 'LIVRAISON OFFERTE' banner. Hero image of a woman in autumn street setting with overlay text 'ÉTÉ 2026' and 'LE STYLE FRANÇAIS SANS EFFORT.' Cookie consent dialog states that the site and partners including Shopify use cookies for personalisation, advertising and analytics, with Accepter / Refuser / Gérer vos préférences options. Shopping bag icon in the top-right header; no cart contents or checkout page visible in the screenshot.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows the wordmark 'Dubois Mode' with French-language navigation (ACCUEIL, FEMMES, HOMMES, CONTACTEZ-NOUS, À PROPOS DE NOUS, SUIVRE VOTRE COMMANDE, FAQ) and a black 'LIVRAISON OFFERTE' banner.
- 02
Hero image of a woman in autumn street setting with overlay text 'ÉTÉ 2026' and 'LE STYLE FRANÇAIS SANS EFFORT.'
- 03
Cookie consent dialog states that the site and partners including Shopify use cookies for personalisation, advertising and analytics, with Accepter / Refuser / Gérer vos préférences options.
- 04
Shopping bag icon in the top-right header; no cart contents or checkout page visible in the screenshot.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 15
Where the page went
- First loadduboismode.frSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Dubois Mode | L'élégance française, au quotidien.
- Meta description
Découvrez une élégance moderne et affirmée avec Dubois Mode.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactez-nousRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Dubois Mode | L'élégance française, au quotidien.
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
8 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Dropshipping
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
Web research findings
Independent findings for duboismode.fr, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Trustpilotopen
"Importante arnaque ! Le nom Dubois et une adresse mail.fr rassure, mais c'est une incroyable arnaque"
- Trustpilotopen
"Quand vous souhaitez les renvoyer (à vos frais) on vous indique une adresse en Chine !"
- Trustpilotopen
"Tout donne à croire sur le site que vous achetez en France mais cela part de Chine."
- Signal-Arnaquesopen
"Boutique Dubois Mode soit disant basé aux Pays Bas mais produit expédiés de Chine."
- Signal-Arnaquesopen
"Retour accepté du produit à condition que je règle les frais de port pour la Chine."
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website has been reported by Gridinsoft as possible malware"
- Trustprofileopen
"Des problèmes ont été signalés Ce domaine a été signalé non sécurisé."
- Trustpilotopen
"Duboismode is rated "Poor" with 2.1 / 5 on Trustpilot"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainduboismode.fr
- Redirects towww.duboismode.fr
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · fonts.shopifycdn.comand 11 more
Domain Timeline
- Jun 13, 2024Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 12, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
duboismode.fr is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@duboismode.fr).
- Phone number listed (+31653569205).
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 12, 2026: 81% of the registration period had passed
At the scan on Nov 12, 2026: 38% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for www.duboismode.fr.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Chat, reviews and email
- Klaviyo
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://duboismode.fr/
- 2301https://duboismode.fr/
- 3200https://www.duboismode.fr/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
Advertising3
- ad.doubleclick.netcontacted
- googleads.g.doubleclick.netcontacted
- googleadservices.comcontacted
Analytics & tracking4
- google-analytics.comcontacted
- googletagmanager.comcontacted
- pixel.wetracked.ioin pagecontacted
- static-tracking.klaviyo.comcontacted
Payments1
- shop.appin pagecontacted
CDN & fonts7
- ajax.googleapis.comin page
- cdn.shopify.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.shopifycdn.comin page
- maps.gstatic.comin page
- monorail-edge.shopifysvc.comin page
- otlp-http-production.shopifysvc.comcontacted
- productreviews.shopifycdn.comin page
Platform & social4
- duboismode-fr.myshopify.comcontacted
- fr.shopify.comin page
- google.comcontacted
- maps.googleapis.comin page
Chat & reviews1
- static.klaviyo.comin pagecontacted
Other / unknown3
- insurance-api.parcelwill.comcontacted
- insurance-widget.parcelwill.comin pagecontacted
- example.comin page
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Independent research | 8 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Independent research
- Result8 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is duboismode.fr a scam or a legit online store?
Is duboismode.fr safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on duboismode.fr — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from duboismode.fr?
I ordered from duboismode.fr but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report duboismode.fr?
duboismode.fr looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has duboismode.fr been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is duboismode.fr on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the duboismode.fr domain?
Does duboismode.fr have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the duboismode.fr report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
French-styled clothing boutique that ships from China and sends returns there at the buyer's expense, according to multiple independent buyer complaints
duboismode.fr is a Shopify clothing store written entirely in French and branded as effortless French style, but its own terms, refund, shipping and contact pages give a store address in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and a Dutch mobile number, with no French company registration. Independent review and complaint platforms carry repeated buyer accounts for this exact domain: goods that do not match the photos, parcels shipped from China, returns directed to a Chinese address at the customer's own cost, and refunds refused or cut to partial offers. The site itself is technically clean — valid encryption, no browser threat warning, no popups or downloads — so the risk here is commercial rather than malicious code.
09 · Community
Community
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